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Whoops, I was using the wrong web browser (I have my other one set to search only Japanese pages by default). Thanks for pointing that out. Nonetheless, even with the 変換 key, I think 5 million entries excludes it from classification as very very rare.

It's very very rare to write おもちゃ in kanji, you should probably stick with hiragana on this one. Not trying to nit-pick, but for a word with 119,000,000 hits on Google for the kanji version, I wouldn't exactly call that "very very rare", especially since the kana rendition is more popular by only 1...

Does that mean it is gramatically wrong to say このべるは高いです。or このべるは高いだ。? このべるは高いです。 is grammatically correct. このべるは高いだ。 is grammatically incorrect and should just be このべるは高い。 It is often said that です is the polite equivalent of だ grammatically, but they are actually a little different. It has additio...

can 冷たい be changed into 冷たな? No, there are very few adjectives that have both な and い forms. 大きい←→大きな 小さい←→小さな おかしい←→おかしな 細かい←→細かな 柔らかい←→柔らかな 暖かい←→暖かな 真っ白い←→真っ白な （など） 四角い←→四角な （など） I think that's about it. I might have missed one or two. Beware that the な form of the first four are different ...

いく is more common, but ゆく is by no means rare, and actually very common in poems and songs. Both have been used together since the Heian period. There's no magic way to tell if something is read いく or ゆく, but you get a feel for it after a while. Often there's no way to tell unless you hear it like i...

I'm not even really sure I would call this slang. Yeah, 知るか is definitely not slang. Know of any slang Japanese dictionaries? If you're still looking for Japanese slang dictionaries, here are the two I find most useful. They're not complete, but better than nothing. 日本語俗語辞書 若者用語の小事典 Just keep in mi...

I couldn't find the word, "do dishes". Is it, "デイシェスする”？ 皿洗いをする or 皿を洗う さらあらいをする or さらをあらう Before and after, when I want to say," I want to slepp after I eat," I'd go with 食べてから寝たいです。 I'd go with たべてからねたいです。 do I add a の before the 後? For 後, it works like any other noun. Nの後 or V後: whether you use ...

whats the grammar difference between 電気を消しましょうか and 電気を消しませんか Roughly the same as the difference between "Will you turn off the lights?" and "Won't you turn off the lights?" I could be off here, but as far as I'm aware, 電気を消しましょうか is much closer to "Should I turn off the lights?" or "Do you want me...

Hey Joker123, Personally, I recommend against resetting your progress. I'm sure you'll remember some of the cards you've already learnt and the system will automatically adjust for the ones you haven't. That's what it's designed to do. I ended up tied up in some other things in life and didn't have ...

If you're interested in subscriptions to magazines that don't usually ship outside of Japan, Sasuga Books offers a fairly wide welection of import subscriptions. I've also had subscriptions through CDJapan before. They have a more limited selection of genres, but a wider selection within the genres ...

I think a large part of のだ being difficult for learners of Japanese to grasp is the partial explanations and limited examples that textbooks seem to give. Sometimes I find a 国語 dictionary or other similar resource goes a long way toward clearing up the confusion; then again, sometimes it doesn't. It...

I've found watching TV shows that have シナリオ本 available (or that have transcripts at Drama Note, etc.) a great help. When I'm not sure of what I'm hearing, I can look it up in the book, or read along. Of course for it to be any fun, you'll have to find a show you enjoy, but that's another matter.